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The Great Cat Massacre And Other Episodes In French Cultural History

Robert Darnton

Examines the history and culture of eighteenth-century France as it provides a view of the people of the cities, towns, and countryside during the Age of Enlightenment

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

Shane Gillis briefly mentioned a book titled 'The Great Cat Massacre', which apparently details a historical event where cats were massacred in France during the 1730s. It was brought up in a discussion about cats and the origin of the phrase, 'more than one way to skin a cat'.

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there was a night where like all the elites i believe it was france had cats maybe it was england maybe that's why i can't find it but they had cats and so all the like peasants just massacred cats

— Episode: Ep 331- Stolen Valor

Episode: Ep 331- Stolen Valor

Shane Gillis briefly mentioned a book titled 'The Great Cat Massacre', which apparently details a historical event where cats were massacred in France during the 1730s. It was brought up in a discussion about cats and the origin of the phrase, 'more than one way to skin a cat'.

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there was a night where like all the elites i believe it was france had cats maybe it was england maybe that's why i can't find it but they had cats and so all the like peasants just massacred cats

oh so yeah dude this would have been okay so this was doing that paris in the late 1730s so yeah this this was this was when uh so yeah russo's dad had just exiled in 1922 all right so he was eight when they were just hearing the cats coming he knew the cats were coming he knew there was gonna be a big cat fucking massacre he was just in a print shop and he was like what's going on master and like they're fucking murdering all the cats i'm out of here this place sucks

Behind the Bastards

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Behind the Bastards

The book details how printers' apprentices in France, who lived with the printer and were cared for much less well than the printer's wife's cats, got mad and started killing cats, putting the cats on trial, and convicting them of witchcraft.

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The Great Cat Massacre is a book by Robert Danson. It's like a, it's a very, like, if you're doing a history graduate degree and you're reading, like, these sort of histories of everyday life or, like...

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 57

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 57

The book details how printers' apprentices in France, who lived with the printer and were cared for much less well than the printer's wife's cats, got mad and started killing cats, putting the cats on trial, and convicting them of witchcraft.

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The Great Cat Massacre is a book by Robert Danson. It's like a, it's a very, like, if you're doing a history graduate degree and you're reading, like, these sort of histories of everyday life or, like, histories of popular laughter, you will read The Great Cat Massacre.

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